Kako bi izbjegao zatvorsku kaznu, Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) prihvati sudsku nagodbu i odlazi u američku vojnu bazu na Filipinima. Za jedne od prvih misija napada ga skupina pobunjenih ninja koju predvodi opasni trgovac oružjem Ortega, čija je namjera ukrasti zalihe oružja američke vojske radi preprodaje i krijumčarenja. U središtu napada slučajno se nađe i pukovnikova (Steve James) kćer (Judie Aronson) koju Armstrong spašava i vraća u bazu. Ortega planira osvetu i šalje čitavu vojsku ninja da smaknu Armstronga i otmu pukovnikovu kćer.
Casey (Scott Adkins) živi u Japanu i uči borilačku vještinu ninjitsu. Miljenik je učitelja, koji mu podari vrijednu ninjinu opremu – odjeću i oružje. No jedan drugi učenik, Masazuka (Tsuyoshi Ihara), smatra da on zaslužuje ninjin oklop i napadne Caseya. Protjeran iz grupe, Masazuka se priključuje kriminalcima koji se nazivaju The Ring te postaje ubojica. Učitelj govori Caseyu da ninjin oklop ponese u Ameriku kako ga se Masazuka ne bi dočepao. Ubrzo, Masazuka ubija učitelja i kreće put Amerike pronaći Caseya.
Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses and the politician; along the way, he acquires the aid of a taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for several decades and is struggling to cope with poverty and the prejudices of native-born Japanese.
One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase the samurais who scramble to escape. Yet now three ninjas stand up against her. Kotono drops her sword by their wave of assaults. Can she beat them?
In October 2011, Michael Woodford was suddenly ousted as CEO of Olympus Corporation, a multi-billion dollar Japanese optical company. What followed was international media furor which exposed one of the biggest scandals in Japanese corporate history. The film chronicles the saga of egregious corporate malefactors and a doomed East-West clash.
